Am 2. November präsentieren das Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop und die Sängerin und Autorin Annika Henderson alias Anika ihre Umsetzung von Nicos Soloalbum “Desertshore” von 1970 im Berliner Silent Green. “The cult album, arranged and produced by John Cale in 1970, combines elements of Gothic, Folkrock and Romantic styles”, heißt es im Begleittext des Events. “Set in the form of a song cycle, it draws inspiration from the symbolism of the German Romantic traditions. It is dark and unsettling, and the singing conveys a deep understanding of the music while at the same time keeping a strange distance to it. In contrast, Kaleidoskop presents Witold Lutosławski ‘s complex Preludes and Fugue for 13 strings. Composed in the same year, the two pieces could not be more different: Between aleatoricism and the highest complexity, seven very different and overlapping preludes precede a large-scale fugue. Weiterlesen →